On the whole what eBay are trying to achieve with this, is a good thing.

Does ebay really think, after it has belittled and mucked around sellers like me (noise apparently), that i would spend any longer than, ooh i dunno, zero seconds, helping them?

sorry, but no way!

You can tell them about this law or that law and they will not listen, if you were a law official/trading standards they would do.

You can point out laws till your blue in the face, i did so with microsoft and the sale of goods under EU law and they wouldnt listen. Ebay broke the law by stopping me selling these items, their are also quite a few other instances where they do so and those are plain to see.

Ebay are a huge company, they dont listen to individuals.

The video recordings act would cover a lot more than ebay would ever care to remove, all the bootleg DVD / concert videos make ebay some nice profits, we wouldnt want to stop that now would we…

I suppose this is because you know better than anyone, how dare eBay not act on your say so.

You should complain to someone, I get the feeling that you might be quite good at it.

If nothing else, I think we have all learnt that eBay should NEVER act on the say so of one person, especially where the potential to ruin someones business is at stake.

Besides you have no idea what action eBay have or have not taken. Simply because you cannot see any effect, doesn’t mean that noting is being done.

To eBay and most other people you are no-one, just someone with an opinion on some DVDs.

Surely you never expected eBay to remove these items.

I do agree with you when you say the days are gone when eBay can simply shirk all responsibility of listings on “their” site, but we are a long way from any real change.

I seen a set of DVDs for sale on eBay that had every episode of a particular TV series. As a member of the fan club I was aware that all episodes had never been released on DVD. When I contacted eBay and pointed this out their reply was that the seller had put in their listing that the material was in the public domain. I even highlighted that the DVDs did not carry a British Board of Film Classification certificate and therefore it was illegal to sell them in Britain. I supplied them with links to the BBFC website showing what episodes of the program were legal in the UK but they simply ignored this. It was only when I had contacted trading standards and they became involved did eBay remove the listing. If this is how eBay deal with obviously illegal goods on their site then I feel that they should be accountable. Their old get out clause of “We don’t sell the goods. We are simply a channel for the transaction” no longer rings true.

Think you may have forgotten someone ???

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The industry I’m in isn’t a natural online industry, and other people in the industry were visiting customers and quoting prices and getting told that they could buy the same on eBay for £XXX. It was giving them a hard time. poor souls.

For what I was actually selling it wasn’t worth the hassle and I didn’t think that increasing prices would help the sales levels at all.

There are others listing the same product on eBay at varying prices, but they may be risking their account with the supplier.

They threatened to close my account with the result that I’d be unable to provide any after sales spares to my existing customers.

Illegal??. I think so, but I haven’t got the resources to fight them. They also have the same rights as any seller to refuse to sell to me, and fighting them will almost certainly result in me losing my account anyway.

I don’t think changes in the law will make any difference to me.

Some items do need to be sold at an appropriate venue (possible examples: child car seats, crash helmets, knives, alcohol, tickets to football matches).

I also feel that at the first line of sale suppliers should be allowed to have some say on how there items are sold but once an item has been sold into the market those rights end.

I would also like to see eBay taking a more pro active stance in regard to sales of goods that don’t meet EU/UK regulations.

Just sell imports from China. They never seem to complain when their items appear on eBay.

I suppose it boils down to wanting more than just ebay dumping on you from a great height or just ebay

personally ebay dump on me enough without letting someone else in on the act.

If the EU rule comes in ANY Maker of ANYTHING will be able to stop you selling their items on ebay

So unless you make your own product your coat is on a shoogly peg.

Ebay needs to get their own house in order before laying down the law to others.

Does anybody think ebay treats its buyers fair? I don’t think so!

I’m with Whirly on this one – ebay pays some of the bills and Amazon pays the others. If I could move lock stock and barrel to Amazon I’d be off like a long dog.

Amazon treats sellers with respect; ebay either ignores you or replies with some cut and pasted mish mash of rubbish.

I don’t think they realise just how fragile a position they hold. All its going to take is Alan Sugar, Richard Branson and a bunch of Dragons from the Den to get together and offer an alternative.

OK, I know this is cloud cuckoo land thinking, but I wish it would happen, because I have no loyalty left for ebay.

Put sterling silver into the search box and how many of the items on the first page do not comply with the hallmaking act. In my opinion this kind of thing is a much more real and definite threat to my eBay business.

Put Tiffany & Co into the search. How many of you would feel confident about making a purchase (even if the seller has 100% feedback)